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Cordially yours,
:•,
~'...
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY
FOR FRIENDS OF
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
SIOUX FALLS
SOUTH DAKOTA
EMI
~ O ,
••
•• I A Y
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1
Two Very Significant Announcements, and ...
A GREETING AT CHRISTMAS TIME
•••
01/1••
‘.L/
Dear Friend:
First of all, may I wish you a joyous and blessed
Christmas season!
Then, will you sit down and visit with me for a few
moments as we approach the end of 1962 and the be-ginning
of the New Year just ahead. (Somehow, this
is the season of the year when memories flood in
upon us, even as we look forward with anticipation
to the unknown future.)
Two very important and sig-nificant
announcements will be
found on other pages of this pub-lication.
I urge that you read them
carefully and take time to ponder
their importance in the on-going
life of our college, and their pos-sible
significance to you.
First of all, beginning in June of
1963, Augustana will offer courses
leading to a degree of Master of
STAVIG Arts in Teaching. Coming as the
culmination of several years of in-tensive
study and planning by our faculty, we may
now invite students to make plans to earn a Master's
degree at Augustana. This marks a very large forward
step in our development, and opens up future possi-bilities
of far-reaching importance.
Simultaneously, Augustana announces a program
of support that we hope will move us rapidly toward
the realization of our dream of a new Science Build-ing.
We invite one thousand of our friends to join us
as Fellows of Augustana. These people will form a
solid phalanx of support and counsel during the years
ahead. We are hopeful that from them there may come
during the next four or five years at least a million
dollars for our development program.
This is my twentieth Christmas at Augustana.
Yes, next August it will be twenty years since I came
to Sioux Falls to become the president of our college.
They have been the greatest years of my life and leave
me with wonderful memories and with a deep sense
of personal gratitude. It has been very satisfying to
be a part of Augustana during these years so filled
with opportunity, change, promise, and challenge.
God has given us visions and dreams of what this
college ought to be. They have grown out of the work-ing
together of great numbers of people, out of dif-ferences
of opinion, out of endless discussions and
conferences, out of prayers and searchings, out of
fears and uncertainties and tensions, out of study and
questioning. Faculty, Board, students, pastors, lay-men,
business men, Sioux Falls residents, church
members, educators, alumni, all have helped to stir
the imagination and thinking that have given form
to our vision and turned it into workable plans and
programs. This has been a truly great experience.
But God has also permitted us to watch the trans-formation
of dreams and visions into solid realities.
In ways that have gladdened our hearts and quick-ened
our spirits, our friends have rallied around. A
host of people have demonstrated their faith in the
program of Christian education on this campus. Stu-dents
have flocked here in growing numbers, the
boundaries of the campus have been pushed back,
buildings have moved from drafting boards and have
taken form in brick and concrete, well-trained
teachers have joined our ranks, the curriculum has
grown in quantity and quality, and somehow the
needed dollars have been provided. There have been
times when we thought we might be visionary and
when our dreams seemed fantastic. But again and
again God has forced us to larger goals and then per-mitted
us to experience the realization of what had
seemed unattainable.
At Christmas time of 1962 we know that we are
still only in our beginnings. Gradually assuming form
and shape are new possibilities that challenge our
imagination and try our faith. Step by step, area by
area, we have been probing the future and attempting
to know what God requires of us. What we see thrills
and challenges us.
Therefore at this Christmas season, we greet you
and invite you to share our vision for the future of
Augustana College. Will you pray God's blessing upon
our work and guidance as we plan for the future? May
it be that in 1963 and in the years beyond, God
has designed for you a share in this cause that is larger
and more significant than you have thus far dreamed?
Is it possible that God has planned for you satisfaction
and joy that can be yours only if you give yourself to
a greater degree than you have heretofore known?
Thank you for the privilege of this visit and
greeting.
Lawrence M. Stavig
President

Cordially yours,
:•,
~'...
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY
FOR FRIENDS OF
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
SIOUX FALLS
SOUTH DAKOTA
EMI
~ O ,
••
•• I A Y
VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1
Two Very Significant Announcements, and ...
A GREETING AT CHRISTMAS TIME
•••
01/1••
‘.L/
Dear Friend:
First of all, may I wish you a joyous and blessed
Christmas season!
Then, will you sit down and visit with me for a few
moments as we approach the end of 1962 and the be-ginning
of the New Year just ahead. (Somehow, this
is the season of the year when memories flood in
upon us, even as we look forward with anticipation
to the unknown future.)
Two very important and sig-nificant
announcements will be
found on other pages of this pub-lication.
I urge that you read them
carefully and take time to ponder
their importance in the on-going
life of our college, and their pos-sible
significance to you.
First of all, beginning in June of
1963, Augustana will offer courses
leading to a degree of Master of
STAVIG Arts in Teaching. Coming as the
culmination of several years of in-tensive
study and planning by our faculty, we may
now invite students to make plans to earn a Master's
degree at Augustana. This marks a very large forward
step in our development, and opens up future possi-bilities
of far-reaching importance.
Simultaneously, Augustana announces a program
of support that we hope will move us rapidly toward
the realization of our dream of a new Science Build-ing.
We invite one thousand of our friends to join us
as Fellows of Augustana. These people will form a
solid phalanx of support and counsel during the years
ahead. We are hopeful that from them there may come
during the next four or five years at least a million
dollars for our development program.
This is my twentieth Christmas at Augustana.
Yes, next August it will be twenty years since I came
to Sioux Falls to become the president of our college.
They have been the greatest years of my life and leave
me with wonderful memories and with a deep sense
of personal gratitude. It has been very satisfying to
be a part of Augustana during these years so filled
with opportunity, change, promise, and challenge.
God has given us visions and dreams of what this
college ought to be. They have grown out of the work-ing
together of great numbers of people, out of dif-ferences
of opinion, out of endless discussions and
conferences, out of prayers and searchings, out of
fears and uncertainties and tensions, out of study and
questioning. Faculty, Board, students, pastors, lay-men,
business men, Sioux Falls residents, church
members, educators, alumni, all have helped to stir
the imagination and thinking that have given form
to our vision and turned it into workable plans and
programs. This has been a truly great experience.
But God has also permitted us to watch the trans-formation
of dreams and visions into solid realities.
In ways that have gladdened our hearts and quick-ened
our spirits, our friends have rallied around. A
host of people have demonstrated their faith in the
program of Christian education on this campus. Stu-dents
have flocked here in growing numbers, the
boundaries of the campus have been pushed back,
buildings have moved from drafting boards and have
taken form in brick and concrete, well-trained
teachers have joined our ranks, the curriculum has
grown in quantity and quality, and somehow the
needed dollars have been provided. There have been
times when we thought we might be visionary and
when our dreams seemed fantastic. But again and
again God has forced us to larger goals and then per-mitted
us to experience the realization of what had
seemed unattainable.
At Christmas time of 1962 we know that we are
still only in our beginnings. Gradually assuming form
and shape are new possibilities that challenge our
imagination and try our faith. Step by step, area by
area, we have been probing the future and attempting
to know what God requires of us. What we see thrills
and challenges us.
Therefore at this Christmas season, we greet you
and invite you to share our vision for the future of
Augustana College. Will you pray God's blessing upon
our work and guidance as we plan for the future? May
it be that in 1963 and in the years beyond, God
has designed for you a share in this cause that is larger
and more significant than you have thus far dreamed?
Is it possible that God has planned for you satisfaction
and joy that can be yours only if you give yourself to
a greater degree than you have heretofore known?
Thank you for the privilege of this visit and
greeting.
Lawrence M. Stavig
President